Class Group Projects

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Class Group Projects

• Research in the form of understanding the state
  of art of a topic related to metrics or quality
  through reading several articles (2-4 articles).
• Develop a presentation to teach the class on the
  subject
• cover the topic via the articles read
• extend it by injecting your opinion and
  reasons(supporting some specific point or against
  some specific point)
• Hand in
• 1) a write up citing the articles read
• 2) the presentation (power point slides)
• Grade
• Worth about half of all the projects grade.
• Both the presentation and write will be evaluated

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Potential (Sample) Choices of Topics

• Design Metrics for OO Software
• Hierarchical Model for Object Oriented Design
  Quality Assessment by J. Bansiya and C.G. Davis,
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.
  28, No1, Jan. 2002.
• A Controlled Experiment for Evaluating Quality
  Guidelines on the Maintainability of Object
  Oriented Design by L. C. Briand, C Bunse, and J.
  W. Daly, IEEE Transactions on Software
  Engineering Vol. 27, No 6, June 2001.
• Class size as a metric in OO Software
• Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity
  of Object-Oriented Metrics by K.E. Emam, S.
  Benlarbi, N. Goel, and S.N. Rai, IEEE Transaction
  on Software Engineering vol.27, No7, July 2001
• The optimal Class size for Object-Oriented
  Software, by K.E. Emam, S. Benlarbi,N.Goel,W.Melo
  ,K.Lounis, and SN.Rai, IEEE Transactions on
  Software Engineering, Vol.28,No5, 2002.

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Potential Choice of Topics

• Testing and Assessment
• On Comparison of Random, Partition, and
  Proportional Partition Test by S. Ntafos, IEEE
  Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 27, No
  10, Oct. 2001
• Evaluating Testing Methods by Delivered
  Reliability by P.G. Frankl, R. G. Hamlet, B.
  Littlewood, and L. Strigini, IEEE Transaction on
  Software Engineering Vol. 24, No 8, Aug. 1998
• Modeling
• Predictive Modeling Techniques of Software
  Quality from Software Measures by T. M.
  Khoshgoftaar, J.C. Munson, B.B. Bhattacharya, and
  G.D. Richardson, IEEE Transactions on Software
  Engineering, Vol. 18, No 11 , Nov. 1992.
• A Methodology for Architecture-Level Reliability
  Risk Analysis by S. M. Yacoub and H.H. Ammar,
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
  vol.28, No 6, June 2002

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Potential Choice of Topics

• GUI and Web Applications Metrics
• usability
• complexity
• Finding the Flow in Web Site Search, M. Hearst,
  A. Elliott, J. English, R. Sinha, K. Swearingen,
  and K.P. Yee, Communications of the ACM,
  September 2002/ vol. 45, No.9, pp 42 - 49

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Other Areas

• Reuse Metrics
• Code
• Design
• Testing Metrics
• Productivity Metrics
• Design Complexity Metrics
• OO
• Data Base
• Web Application
• General Expressive-ability, understandability,
  changeability
• Maintenance Metrics